From: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 17:36:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Python extension commands in git - request for policy change
Message-ID: <20121125173607.GB32394@thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s0WYiV3hTE7u28_Wd59FkGfu3o_psS0gocpnibzN4--Fg@mail.gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>:
> Of course, but there are experts in C and shell around, not so many
> python experts. So if somebody sneaks in a python program that makes
> use of features specific to python 2.7, I doubt anybody would notice.

I would.

> And if they did, I doubt that would be reason enough for rejection,
> supposing that porting to 2.6 would be difficult enough.

In cases like that, backporting is usually pretty easy.  Been there, done that.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>